Sunday, September 09, 2007

We happily participated in the T-List earlier this year - but the fact is that it grew to such a unmanageable size that anyone trying to find the decent ones was faced with a frustrating and time-consuming task.

Using his industry list as a base, this is Travolution's The Recommended for anyone interested in the travel industry and its relationship with the web and new media. It is not intended to be a list of "travel blogs".

All the sites listed below are updated regularly and are "blogs" - rather than news sites which joined the T-List and clearly masquerade as blogs.

Like the T-List, we would like this to grow to become a de-facto first port of call for industry folk and those with an interest in the online travel industry and new media.

Usual procedures apply: let us know via the comments section if you think your blog or another we have missed should be included on the list. We will happily add more if they qualify. Spread the word by re-posting the list yourself on your own blog.

There is an element of link-baiting here, of course, but we feel the T-List has actually become a rather over-sized beast which doesn't actually give our Travolution readers a decent snapshot of the blogosphere.

Judging by some of the blogs on there, I can suggest blog.travellerspoint.com :)

By the way, why is it that when I hit 'show original post' in the comments area, only some of the links actually show up as links and the others just show up as text. It's not like that in the article, so is it something with the way they are linked to? Curious... never noticed it before!

I don't know, it depends on your definition of 'aimed at consumers'. Yes, it's read by a lot of our members who often tend to be consumers, but we also post industry related stuff from time to time (I'll admit it's not that much though :) ).

The reason I suggest it is that a few of the blogs are also consumer blogs or similar to ours (realtravel's blog for example or travel rants - the title for that one actually reads "Holiday advice and travel news for consumers"). To be perfectly clear, I understand if you don't add the blog as we don't blog enough and probably carry less industry news than the others.

Also please don't remove those links for my having pointed them out; they're both great resources and just the first two that jumped out at me :) I'm half messing with you guys anyway, these lists are driving me crazy, even Eric has gotten in on them and restarting them... LOL :